¿¿Wikileaks != Julian Assange??

Julio
01/08/2017

Starting off 2017 with a big sigh because of everything.

Particularly, I have my problems with how Wikileaks has developed it’s model in the past few years, especially the “drip drip” nonsense this election which looked and felt political. But I can’t forget that the Wikileaks model of encryption and source protection is massively important and is now being developed much better by peeps like Snowden, Poitras, Greenwald, and Scahill.

All that said, I don’t know who is running the Wikileaks twitter, whether it is Assange or a battery of individuals. I also don’t think his tweet in regards to Obama and the media getting info before Trump, or the Hannity interview quite amounts to support for trump.

-intelligence evidence remains to be seen about how they received their leaks and how they went about deciding to release them the way they did-

No doubt it looks fishy -WL is an opaque organizations by design- and we should be skeptical of their motives and agenda. Yet, we are obligated to acknowledge that their archives are pristine and their journalism model has been exceptional for the better and for the worse.

I think it is highly unlikely that the Russian government colluded with WL directly.

That is, it is unlikely that Putin’s administration ordered the hack and then made themselves known as the perpetrators to Assange.

Assange does seem to know who gave them the leaks and claims it is non-govt – we don’t know how they got them though – but again WL has a record of being truthful in many regards and so I think it is likely Assange believes what he is saying on Hannity.

Assange abruptly refused to answer to this allegation in the Hannity interview –> dailymail.co.uk article <– which was noteworthy.

Circumstantial evidence is noteworthy, but an indictment of Putin’s administration it does not make.

If the evidence was stronger, I think Obama would have done a whole lot more than ban some Russian diplomats out of the country. With the serious charges his administration is making, Obama should have done a hell of a lot more than push them out calling them spies.

The situation is critical and I’m totally willing to believe that Putin did bad things, laundered it through WL, and that Assange made the most mess out of it he could.

But short of hard evidence, I’m not committed to any conclusions yet other than the mess I saw Assange make. I’m still analyzing.

-J

p.s. Lulu Friesdat is awesome. Her team and their work on election fraud is amazing and is something to think about moving forward with digital and analog voting options. (her research is why I was for Jill Stein’s recount)
p.p.s. The shear amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression was more than enough for me to say the whole election was a defrauding of democracy in the first place. –see Ari Berman